The Evaluation and Treatment of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury

Offering an overview of clinical issues in the assessment and treatment of mild head injury, this text focuses on the practical questions of who is injured, how injuries manifest themselves, and what evaluation and treatment strategies are optimal, for families as well as patients.

Moving beyond the debate over whether and to what degree mild head injury has lasting neuropsychological sequelae, this book is predicated on the assumption that it does cause some problems in some circumstances for some people. It focuses on the practical questions of who is injured, how injuries manifest themselves, and what evaluation and treatment strategies are optimal, for families as well as patients. The distinguished authors bring to their task not only scientific expertise but extensive day-to-day clinical experience. This book will be widely welcomed as the first comprehensive overview of what we have learned from research and clinical experience about these difficult cases.

Contents: Preface. B.P. Uzzell, Mild Head Injury: Much Ado About Something. J.F. Malec, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury: Scope of the Problem. R.N. Varney, R.J. Roberts, Forces and Accelerations in Car Accidents and Resultant Brain Injuries. Y. King Liu, Biomechanics of "Low-Velocity Impact" Head Injury. E.D. Bigler, Neuroimaging in Mild TBI. J.T. Barth, R.N. Varney, R.A. Ruchinskas, J.P. Francis, Mild Head Injury: The New Frontier in Sports Medicine. R.M. Ruff, Discipline-Specific Approach Versus Individual Care. N.R. Varney, Posttraumatic Anosmia and Orbital Frontal Injury. T. Hart, M.F. Schwartz, N. Mayer, Executive Function: Some Current Theories and Their Applications. V.M. Neppe, G.T. Goodwin, The Neuropsychiatric Evaluation of the Closed Head Injury of Transient Type (CHIT). R.J. Roberts, Epilepsy Spectrum Disorder in the Context of Mild Traumatic Brain Injury. J.S. Hayes, R.C. Hilsabeck, W.D. Gouvier, Malingering Traumatic Brain Injury: Current Issues and Caveats in Assessment and Classification. L.I. Cripe, The Use of the MMPI With Mild Closed Head Injury. R.M. Ruff, I. Grant, Postconcussional Disorder: Background to DSM-IV and Future Considerations. G.J. Larrabee, Current Controversies in Mild Head Injury: Scientific and Methodologic Considerations. T.W. McAllister, L.A. Flashman, Mild Brain Injury and Mood Disorders: Causal Connections, Assessment, and Treatment. M.E. Hines, Posttraumatic Headaches. C.T. Gualtieri, The Pharmacologic Treatment of Mild Brain Injury. V.M. Neppe, Integration of the Evaluation and Management of the Transient Closed Head Injury Patient: Some Directions. C.S. Kubu, Emotion Recognition and Psychosocial Behavior in Closed Head Injury. K. Chwalisz, The Problem of Comorbidity in Spouses. C.T. Siders, Therapy for Spouses of Head Injured Patients. M.A. Roberts, Mild Traumatic Brain Injury in Children and Adolescents.